Drums of War Festival Brings 31 Bands to Barcelona Next Weekend Full Schedule Announced


Drums of War Festival 2026 wide banner featuring all 31 band logos including Destruction, 1349, Pestilence, Unleashed, Tormentor, Onslaught, Kampfar, Impaled Nazarene, Aeternus, Nargaroth, Vinterland, Messiah, Sathanas, Massacra Legacy, Negative Plane, Deathhammer, In the Woods, Zemial, Impiety, A Canorous Quintet, Deiphago, Attic, The Night Eternal, Nocturnal, Lik, Unbounded Terror, Orthodoxy, Funebre Devastation, and Spectre — August 27 to 29, Barcelona Spain

The inaugural Drums of War Festival descends on Barcelona, Spain, this August 27 to 29 with 31 bands across three days of underground extreme metal at Atlantic Events. Destruction, 1349, Nargaroth, Pestilence, Grave, Tormentor, Unleashed, Impaled Nazarene, and many more fill the bill. Tickets at drumsofwar.com.  Continue reading →


Lock Up Announce Brethren of the Pentagram Box Set Tribute to Jesse Pintado and Tomas Lindberg


Grindcore supergroup Lock Up has announced ‘Brethren of the Pentagram,’ a four-disc career retrospective set to be released on May 29th via Dissonance Productions. The box set honors late members Jesse Pintado and Tomas Lindberg and collects seventy-three tracks from the band’s first three studio albums, along with a rare live recording. Pre-order now. Continue reading →


ALBUM REVIEW: All Hell – Sunsetter




Released under Terminus Hate City, Asheville-based All Hell releases their fifth full length album entitled Sunsetter– fusing altogether first wave Black Metal references with many other references too such as Deathrock, Punk, and film score type of atmospheres. Best known for occult-horror storytelling and narratively transgressive sounds, this time they conceptualized an album with a vast range from ancient myth to modern day apocalyptic undertones. The core themes being explored on this album include exile, rebirth, cosmic vengeance, lineage, vices and virtues, as well as the ordeals of surviving as well as apocalyptic worlds– incorporating references like Lilith, the curse of Cain, and a bloodline that is damned. Continue reading →